(July 17, 2013 at 3:19 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: First of all, not much communication other than pointing needs to be done in order to construct an architecture.
I think a tower of any decent height would have required more than just pointing and grunting. God could have just let gravity and ground compaction do the job for him. Or high altitude and wind shear. Or any number of likely problems that would have arisen as they got higher than a few stories. Or be really sneaky and have them pile their bricks on one side of the structure and watch the whole thing just tip over. Instead, he sounded pretty worried. "Shit, if they build this and realize that the world isn't a flat disc with a clear bowl placed over it we are TOTALLY FUCKED. Quick, make up a whole bunch of different languages!!!"
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
